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Strong circumstantial evidence points to Seale being the father of Charles, William Jr. and Anthony Seale. Family tradition claims he fathered William Seal Muse through a "union" with Sophia Pope Muse (Pope was her middle name), daughter of James Muse, Sr. and Sophia Pope Muse.

William Seale, Sr., born in 1722, Virginia. He was the eldest son of Anthony Seale, II and Ann Bristow Seale. William was found in the Prince William Co VA records between 1747 and 1765, but by August 1766 he had moved to Cumberland Co NC and settled near his brother Charles Seale. He had numerous land grants and made many deeds there. In the late 1760s, the governor of NC appointed William Seale as a justice of the peace for Cumberland County, along with James Muse, Jr. The justices of the peace made up the justices who served on the County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions. Seale and Muse served on the Cumberland County court together between then and 1773. In 1774, the governor reappointed Seale as a justice. He signed an oath preventing Catholics from serving as county officers and to uphold the patriots during the Revolution.

William Seale, Sr. was elected as the first representative of newly created Moore Co NC to the NC General Assembly in 1784. However, Seale resigned that fall and returned home (the NC capitol was then in New Bern). He was one of the first justices of the peace for Moore County. The second sitting of the Moore County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions met at Seale's house in Nov 1784. In 1785, Seale was charged with disturbing the peace, and his fellow justices fined him sixpence. He resigned as a Moore County justice in 1789. William Seale, Sr. died between 1790 and 1800 in Moore County.

His first wife appears to have been Winifred and second wife was Mary (Molly).

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